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More explosive Patty Mills?! Wow that’s a pessimistic take! I was thinking young Tony Parker with Elite outside shooting!
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More explosive Patty Mills?! Wow that’s a pessimistic take! I was thinking young Tony Parker with Elite outside shooting!
Dillingham is still on list of players to target. His body control with some contact an off the dribble shooting is amazing. His defense is a concern but still like him overall with one of our picks as well.
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Kyrie is not a good defender. Tony Parker was not a good defender. I think PG defense is overblown for Elite Offensive Creators.
Over rated.
I don't think he will an NBA all-star. But I would draft him at 8 basically just for his scoring potential and to Alleviate scoring issues as the team is currently constructed.
Will more than likely be there at 8
The only concern is a player like dillingham being targeted heavily and being able to have them on the court it tight games. What lineups you throw out there to balance his positives on offense to when he is on defense.
What I mean with concerns with defense.
his defensive concerns are overrated. He’ll have Wemby behind him.
I would've said upside were more like "Australian National Team Mills but able to translate to the NBA". Spurs Mills where he was a shooter and opportunistic scorer is very different from the Mills who play internationally. I do see that upside in Dilly where he can shoot and put also take advantage of any space the defense gives him. The real question isn't offense, since he's still more likely to be the third option if everything works out, and he would be able to do that even if he can't finish reliably through contact. The question is if he can be useful on defense. His size isn't really an issue, because there are defensive schemes where guys that size can play a role. Mills himself was a great point defender when the Spurs ran zone. Dilly doesn't have to be big -- he just has to be aggressive and disruptive, and that's more mental than anything. But some of his interviews bring the mental part into question. A Dilly who can contribute to a defense which is carried by others can be a championship PG provided the offense comes along. A Dilly who is incompetent on defense as much as he's overpowered is more of a sixth man than anything else. A sixth-man Dilly is well worth the eighth pick, but not necessarily the fourth.
Ya maybe we can stack the roster with Pops Pets and overburden Wemby.
meh
Still my favourite prospect for the Spurs in this year's draft. I'm confident Dillingham and Wembanyama would find a powerful synergy on the offensive end of the floor. Both are extremely creative players and brilliant improvisers -- Wemby deserves teammates who can read the game like he can, so they can elevate one another. A team is not merely the sum of its parts, both for better and, as we've seen at times, worse. Dillingham's on- and off-ball skills are a key missing ingredient for this team, and his shooting is desperately needed.
Defensively, he will always be a problem. If he could eventually approach average, it would be a huge win. But outside of mental lapses, what I mostly saw from Dillingham on the defensive side was that his lack of size and strength led to him getting backed down and overpowered, leading to easy buckets. But with Wemby looming as a help defender this glaring weakness is significantly less worrisome. It could even lead to an extra easy block or two for Vic each game as teams try to take advantage.
I say go for it at 4 if Risacher and Castle are gone, don't try to get cute so you can pick one middling wing over another. In that scenario I like Dilly at 4 and BPA at 8.
That strategy Rang 5 times with Duncan. And Dilly would be a better offensive contributor than most guards that Duncan played with.
One thing I don't understand is why people hype up Sheppard's shooting when Dillingham takes way more difficult shots from every possible situation and still has elite efficency?
If Spurs want a shooter, Dillingham has to be the pick.
When I watched Kentucky he seemed to be on the bench a lot and the white dude was the point
PG defense is extremely overrated. if the Spurs can surround Wemby with at least two more competent defenders in the SL, it wont matter if Dilly sucks on defense. kid has a lot of offensive talent and we need a PG, i hope if they do not end up trading for Young/Garland that they nab him in the draft. Our defense is terrible but that is easier to fix imo, Spurs need someone who can actually score the rock which has been sorely missed these last few years
You never watched Kentucky, then, because that was never true.
So the black dude's production per minute was that much better?
he and "the white dude" checked in together off the bench and played as a duo pretty much all season
Right, and while they shared point duties, it was often Dillingham who took more possessions there, in part because Sheppard is incredible off-ball, in part because Dillingham was so good breaking defenses and has a much better handle.
It is true that Dillingham had to take the bench at times due to foul trouble. He does foul too much.
Ok we can check back in 5 years and see how that's working out.
Patty Mills ceiling and bad defense?
Sounds like pops idea of a good guy to get switched onto Durant with no help
My hopeful pick at 8 with Castle being our guy at 4. He may not even be available at that point. Theoretically he should be, but a team like Charlotte could take him at 6 with LaMelo's injury history or a team like Utah could trade up ahead of us and take him. You never know, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to see him go in the top-7. Rockets at 3 may even be interested.
Either way, I think he's definitely BPA if he's still there at 8. He and Castle would compliment each other well. And as for his size/weight, yea he's always gonna be undersized. But with Wemby and Castle theoretically on the floor together, they can help mask some of his defensive shortcomings. He's the lead Guard we need and his offense has a chance to be a pretty damn good one for the foreseeable future. Reminds me so much of Brandon Jennings. Same exact height/weight and playing style, only he's right-handed.
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The handful of late season UK games I watched, I was actually impressed with Dillingham's effort level on defense. Don't need him to be Jrue Holiday, just need him to be enough of a pest there.
I'm more concerned about how his size impacts his durability than it impacts his in-game play. Can he hold up to 30+ mpg for 82 games? This might be a big factor that ultimate suits him to be a better sixth man (which is still a very important role). With that said, size doesn't seem to limit Trae Young's ability to hold up, so maybe it won't impact Dillingham either.
He remains firmly locked in with Sheppard and Castle as interchangable 3-4-5 slots on my amateur board.
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